THE Lozi King, Lubosi Lewanika can evidently be described as the first African to receive a British Royal Family invitation for a coronation ceremony. A delve into the Livingstone Museum archives reveal that Lewanika born 1842, and ruled Barotseland from 1878 to 1916 was invited to England for the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. Nigel Watt a Northern Rhodesia civil servant writes in the Northern Rhodesia Journal of 1952 that while on leave back to his country accidentally met George Tod who revealed that his uncle William Tod and his aunt had hosted Lewanika. “While, I was on leave in London early in 1951, I happened one morning to wander into a typical suburban cafe for morning coffee,...




